Feb 03 2012

Years of mendacity and deceit

Still Britain rattles sabres. Nothing has been learned from Afghanistan

By , Thursday 2 February 2012 16.00 EST … The Afghan war, the longest in US history, is “scheduled to end” a year early, according to the Pentagon…  [more]

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Feb 02 2012

1% nation under God

Why Mitt Romney is ‘not concerned’ about the poor

By , Thursday 2 February 2012 12.53 EST … Although Mitt Romney has yet to win a majority in a Republican primary, he won big in Florida.…  [more]

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Feb 01 2012

Intimately backed

Afghanistan: the big lie

Guardian editorial, Wednesday 1 February 2012 18.04 EST … Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The big lie told repeatedly…  [more]

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Feb 01 2012

A movement I love and respect

What the Occupy movement must learn from Sundance

By , Tuesday 31 January 2012 13.47 EST … So, late last year, I said – to some controversy here – that the violent crackdown against the Occupy movement in…  [more]

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Jan 31 2012

If we killed them, they must be terrorists

With its deadly drones, the US is fighting a coward’s war

By , Monday 30 January 2012 16.00 EST … The ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgment, they…  [more]

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Jan 31 2012

Well, it’s just great to be here!

Mitt Romney: the man behind the perma-smile

By , Monday 30 January 2012 15.00 EST … “Well, it’s just great to be here!” Mitt Romney says as he bounds on to the stage at a campaign stop in…  [more]

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Jan 30 2012

Conditions of unequal power

The Truth About the Conservative Mind: Why Reactionaries from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Have Fought Real Liberty

By Corey Robin, January 29, 2012 … It’s been a rotten few months for the nation’s wealthiest 1 percent. From the…  [more]

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